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BURT — THELEPHOR.\CEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XV 303 



Arkansas: Womble, W. H. Long, 19769 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



8961). 

 Japan: Sendai, A. Yasuda (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 58236). 



Extra Limital Species 



107. C. paniculatum Burt, n. sp. 

 Type: in Burt Herb. 



Fructifications effused, thin, adnate, somewhat membrana- 

 ceous, small pieces separable, pinkish cinnamon in the herbarium, 

 even, not shining, not cracked, the margin narrow, thinning out, 

 with hyphae interwoven; in section 200 [x thick, not colored, 

 composed of loosely interwoven, hyaline hyphae 3 [j. in diameter, 

 not incrusted, not nodose-septate, and of irregularly arranged 

 gloeocystidia or conducting organs up to 30-75 X 3-6 ^, flexuous 

 or irregular in form; paraphyses brownish, giving their color to 

 the hymenium, paniculately branched, with the ultimate branches 

 very slender, projecting beyond the basidia and forming the 

 hymenial surface; basidia cylindric-clavate, 30-40 X 43^-6 tx; 

 no spores found. 



Fructifications 2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, confluent longitudinally. 



On small, decaying, frondose limbs. Paraguay. August. 



C. paniculatum is distinguished among the Corticiums which 

 have gloeocystidia by its pinkish cinnamon color and hymenial 

 surface composed of conspicuous, somewhat colored, bushy- 

 branched paraphyses. 



Specimens examined : 

 Paraguay: Paraguari, Malme, 1081, type, comm, by L. Romell, 



331. 



Species too Incompletely Described for Location 

 AMONG Preceding Species 



108. C. dendriticum P. Hennings, Hedwigia 41 : Beiblatt, 102. 

 1902; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 168. 1905; v. Hohnel & Litschauer, 

 K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 116: 742. 1907. 



Type: in Berlin Herb. 



" Camoso-ceraceum, pallide carneum, dendroideo-ramosum vel 

 radiato-effusum, margine sicco reflexo, albo-villosulo; hymenio 



